**Lingokids is on a mission to help families raise amazing kids through Playlearning. Ready to join us on this exciting journey?**:
Beyond our award-winning app, we’ve built a **multi-platform educational universe**, including our **“**_Baby Bot”_** and “**_Baby Bot’s Backyard Tales”_** shows, Podcasts, and Music Publishing**. Our content, developed in collaboration with top education experts and Oxford Press University, ensures an engaging, high-quality learning experience in a **safe, ad-free environment**. This dedication to excellence has earned Lingokids multiple industry awards across app, podcast, and video categories, including **Best Original Learning App by Kidscreen Awards, National Parenting Product Awards by NAPPA Awards, and Best Parenting Product by Good Housekeeping,** among many others!
We're seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Infrastructure team and help scale Lingokids' platform serving 1M+ unique users daily. You'll be instrumental in optimizing our AWS infrastructure, ensuring 99.9%+ uptime, and pioneering new technologies that enhance our platform's efficiency and developer productivity.
**If you want to be part of a team that's redefining the future of education, we’d love to hear from you!**:
**Core Responsibilities**:
**Infrastructure Excellence (40%)**:
- Design, implement, and maintain highly available AWS infrastructure supporting 1M+ daily users
- Optimize cloud costs through resource right-sizing and architectural improvements
- Manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform with GitOps workflows
- Implement CI/CD pipelines to make our Product Engineers more productive using GitHub Actions and Jenkins
- Ensure 99.9%+ uptime through proactive capacity planning and redundancy
**Observability & Incident Response (30%)**:
- Build comprehensive monitoring
- Create and maintain runbooks for common operational scenarios
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortem processes
**Innovation & Scaling (20%)**:
- Research and prototype new technologies for efficiency gains
- Design infrastructure to support 2-3x user growth without linear cost increase
- Implement chaos engineering practices to improve resilience
- Drive adoption of platform engineering best practices
**Collaboration & Enablement (10%)**:
- Partner with product teams to understand and meet infrastructure needs
- Create self-service tools and documentation for engineering teams
- Conduct infrastructure reviews for new features and services
- Share knowledge through tech talks and documentation
**Required Qualifications**:
**Must-Have Technical Skills**:
- 1+ years in SRE/DevOps roles with production responsibilities
- Strong AWS expertise (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, ECS/EKS, Lambda)
- Infrastructure as Code proficiency with Terraform (2+ years)
- Monitoring/observability tools experience (Datadog, Prometheus, or similar)
- Scripting proficiency (Python, Bash, or Go)
- CI/CD pipeline design and optimization experience (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
**Must-Have Soft Skills**:
- Ability to remain calm and focused under pressure during incident response
- Excellent written communication
- English proficiency for integral team collaboration
**Nice-to-Have**:
- EdTech or consumer mobile app infrastructure experience
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer)
- Experience with infrastructure cost optimization at scale
- Familiarity with compliance requirements (COPPA, GDPR)
**English is a must**:We’re a multicultural team providing a service in **English**, so while certifications aren’t necessary, fluency is essential. As a fully remote company, clear and effective **spoken and written communication**—especially in asynchronous, long-form formats—is key to collaborating successfully.
**Life at Lingokids**:
**Career Growth**: Your growth drives our success! We invest in your development up to **€2,000 per year** for books and training—so you can keep learning and growing with us.
**Remote-Friendly**: Work from where you’re most productive—home or our offices in Madrid—anywhere within a **2-hour difference from Spain (GMT+1)**. The choice is yours!
**Stock Options**: Your contribution matters! You'll receive **stock options**, giving you the opportunity to own part of the company and share in its success.
**Home Office Setup**: Create your ideal workspace with a **€400 allowance** for setup and **€35/month** for remote work expenses—because comfort fuels creativity!
**Meal Allowances**: Get **€60/month** on your Cobee card to enjoy meals at restaurants or food delivery—good food makes everything better!
**Adaptable Compensation**: Manage your **meal, transport and childcare expenses** easily with **Cobee**, integrating them directly into your payroll.
**Health Insurance**: Access **private health coverage** at exclusive rates through Adeslas, seamlessly deducted from your payroll—quality care made simple.
**Language Lessons**: Learning never stops! Enjoy **free l